BBCBritain will vote on whether to remain in the EU on Thursday 23 June, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.The prime minister made his historic announcement in Downing Street after briefing the cabinet.He said he would be campaigning to remain in a reformed EU - and described the vote as one of the biggest decisions "in our lifetimes".Ministers immediately divide

Even leavers agree there may be some short term disruption from exiting, but this will be short lived.All this talk of bad for this country, we will be okay but my concern is how much entangled we will still be with the EU.I could see shortly after we leave the wheels will come off the EU and the Financial crisis will be nothing compared to this fall out.The project was always a bad idea.We have to distance ourselves as much as we can and as quickly as possible or we will also drown on the EU Titanic.We need to SOS save our souls.

ECB will hit buffers of limits in a little over a year (broadly) depending upon the monthly program specifics.

Not that it will make any difference whatsoever.

It’s toast. Demographics, fudged policies and a general tone of protectionism will ensure that. The next recession kills it as we know it now. I suspect you will see the currency users, less Italy, break away to a large degree. If it survives at all.

And a Trump has his eyes set on a trade war with them ahead of an election. A weaker Euro will have him shouting currency manipulator, a stronger one will offset the monetary easing and be a blow to a bloc that is export dominated as a whole. Obviously with Germany the primary example.

Yougov poll put together fir the EU on general feel of EU to its citizens makes one important finding...

The survey shows that in every participating country exceptFrance, pluralities think their own government would do betterat representing the national economic interest than the EU; inFrance, the most popular answer is that “both” would do best.This should be a worrying signal for von der Leyen.

The rest of the report showed there is an issue developing over enlargement. The northern states aren’t keen at all. The eastern ones more so.

"There’s no clash. The parliament sets up the referendum, the people vote, and then the parliament fulfils the referendum outcome."

Probably the most banal and least helpful combination of words possible in this situation. It ought to be blindingly obvious that considerations of state and circumstance limit the totally arbitrary range of possible referenda results. Also, while parliaments exist, the constitutional issue of which is sovereign in terms of law-making always comes down on the side of parliament, so let use have no more drama and gnashing of teeth on this as further discussion is quite unnecessary if, after all, we agree we want to have a parliamentary democracy.